The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-05
Farm and Stock Notes.

A French breeder says that by putting
his rams in the prime of life to old ewes in
the decline of life he never failed to get a
large proportion of ram lambs. When he
coupled ewes in the prime and vigor of life
with ram lambs before they were matured
he got large proportion Of eve lambs.
An experiment in feeding Is head of store
cattle with II pounds of hay, IS pounds of
turnips and 8 pounds of wheat bran per
head daily, and also the same amount of
hay and roots, bat with different kinds of
grain, resulted in the lowest cost of produc-
ton on the bran ration. This was at the
Ontario Agricultural College.
Cherry trees are often allowed to grow 50
high as to make it very inconvenient to
gather the fruit. If the branches be care
fully cut off obliquely and then painted
over so as to protect the cut from decay,
there cen be no objection to cutting back
the head. 1t should be done, however,
while the tree is dormant, January or Feb.
ruary perhaps being the best time
Any domestic animal understands and
appreciates kind treatment 1t is no use to
say they are only dumb brutes 1t is true,
they cannot talk but, like dumb or blind
men, their intelligence in other respects is
doubled. You can make friends of all your
animals if you take the trouble to do so,
and if you should ever feel lonely you can
Danish this feeling by going among your
beasts
The editor of the Orange COUNTY, Farmer
says that he grew the Turner Hybrid to-
mato or, as it is called by some seedmen
the Mikado, in his home garden for the
second time this season. 1t was about the
same as last year. Very little rot but a
very large proportion of the fruit was
Incc Iy1-ir lYlnd Of II III,
so as to be comparatively worthless. In
quality it has no SUPERIOR for which reason
he proposes to continue to plant few of
them.
The Ne,U England Farmer says: "Most
persons who set grape vines under reasona-
bly, favorable conditions have little trouble
in getting one crop of fruit 1t is getting
good crops continually that requires skill
and knowledge of the requisites to success.
Few would let a hen lay all winter and then
set her upon all the eggs she had laid, vet
this would be scarcely more unwise than to
let grape vine carry all the fruit it might
happen to set. Successful grape growing
requires good deal of pruning and thin
ming of the fruit"
Where ducks and geese are sent to mar
kets requiring them drawn they may be
scalded; then wrap them in a cloth for two
minutes, WneD the teaUnefS ana down will
come off clean. Very early in the season
small chicks sell readily because of the scar
city of larger sizes, but the usually pre-
ferred weight is from one to one-and-one
half pound, but later ON those of two
pounds are preferred. In winter all stock
can be shipped better and more economi-
cally when killed and dressed, but in sum-
mer the best mode is to Snip poultry alive
Mr.. Hall explained at the Ontario Con-
vention how he got his combs built out at
the bottom. He said the bees will build
combs right down if the comb foundation
be heavy enough and brought within half
an inch of the bottom bar People said
that was costly. If he Should be going to
use comb only one year it would not pay to
use foundation, but he calculated his combs
to last lifetime, and SO was willing to be
at some cost and trouble to get them good.
He used foundation only four feet to the
pound. He was obliged to make his own
comb foundation because he could not get
a manufacturer to make it heavy enough
for him; and this was the secret of obtain
ing such combs as he had at the exhibition,
which had been in use for several years, and
were only average specimens of what his
bees built.